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TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS UPDATES: See all the breaking news of the day through The Guardian here – and through 6 News here

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Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved – The Guardian

Australian federal and state governments have approved a wave of fossil fuel developments over the past six weeks, sparking accusations Anthony Albanese and other leaders are “gaslighting” the public – claiming they take the climate crisis seriously while pushing up emissions.

Peter Dunn, a former commissioner of emergency services for the Australian Capital Territory, says the Albanese government is “trashing its integrity” and has “lost their licence to lead, days after the election”.

Musk vs. Trump: The Breakup – The Rest Is Politics Podcast US

Will Elon Musk set up a third political party to take on Trump? How low will Tesla stock drop? Who will be the first to de-escalate to avoid mutually assured destruction? Katty and Anthony pull up the popcorn to discuss the latest war of words spilling out of The White House – we told you so!

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Musk and Trump’s undignified divorce rips the mask off modern America, in all its faded glory – Bernard Keane for Crikey (paywall)
From love rat to Musk rat … Trump’s latest frenemy – The Politics

Tasmania could go to an election just 16 months after its last one. What’s going on? – The Conversation

Tasmania’s Liberal government and its premier, Jeremy Rockliff, have come under huge pressure since the state budget was handed down last week.

It’s culminated in the Tasmanian House of Assembly voting to pass a motion of no confidence in the premier – but only after the speaker, Labor’s Michelle O’Byrne, cast a tie-breaking vote in favour.

Rockliff has since confirmed he’ll recall parliament to sit early next week and debate some emergency bills, then ask the governor for permission to call an early election.

It’s been a wild few days in Tasmanian politics, with huge amounts of conjecture and confusion. Here’s how it all unfolded.

Bogus charges of antisemitism are the new McCarthyism – Pearls and Irritations

The word antisemitism has become so debased that depending on who is using it, I might well take it as a sign that the accused is worth listening to.

When the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest, he responded by saying the court was being antisemitic. One of the court’s legal advisers was Theodor Meron, a former Israeli ambassador and legal adviser who spent a chunk of his childhood in a Nazi concentration camp.

Recently, Netanyahu declared the leaders of France, the UK and Canada of fuelling antisemitism.

Michael Pascoe: Jobs fantasy: another set of figures damns the RBA’s judgement – Michael West Media

The latest numbers on Australia’s economy show again that the RBA has got it wrong on interest rates.

Another day, another set of numbers that say the Reserve Bank doesn’t understand what’s going on with Australia’s economy, and is running late in cutting interest rates.

At the core of that tardiness remains the econocrats twisting themselves in knots over a labour market they have failed to believe.

Today’s cartoon by First Dog on the Moon

TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS UPDATES: See all the breaking news of the day through The Guardian here – and through 6 News here

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‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea – The Guardian

Samad Abdul is among the last of more than 2,000 people who passed through the illegal system. Prevented from leaving PNG, he says his life is wasting away.

“Manus is closed. Detention is over, but we are detained still. We are here still, people are suffering a lot still. Every day we get worse, we are dying a little bit more. But nobody cares about us.”

Here on a dusty hill on the edge of Port Moresby is the ragged, desperate end to Australia’s illegal offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea.

Samad Abdul was 23 when he arrived in Australia by boat seeking asylum.

He was on one of the first planes to Manus after Kevin Rudd’s 2013 declaration that boat-borne asylum seekers would never settle in Australia.

Albanese’s push-back against Trump – 7am Podcast

Donald Trump’s return to power is testing Australia’s decades-old reflex to stand with the United States. When the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, demanded Canberra nearly double its military spend, Anthony Albanese answered that Australia will decide its own defence policy – and has been vocal in his criticisms of Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium. With public support for automatic alignment with the US fading, the prime minister is recalibrating the alliance in real time. Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper, Paul Bongiorno, on how Australia is no longer “all the way” with the USA.

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Frank Bongiorno: Defections are fairly common in Australian politics. But history shows they are rarely a good career move – The Conversation

For many years now, Australian political scientists have pointed out that that established partisan allegiance is in decline. In 1967, 36% of Coalition supporters and 32% of Labor voters reported lifetime voting for their side. At the 2022 election, the Australian Election Study found the figures to be 16% and 12%.

These changes help to explain the rising support for independents and minor parties at federal elections; they now take about a third of the primary vote.

So much for voters. What about for politicians? Of course, there have always been plenty of parliamentarians who had an earlier stint as a member of some other party before landing in the one that sent them into parliament.

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Scott Morrison is getting Australia’s highest honour despite a laundry list of scandals and embarrassments – Crikey

Media have been circulated a list of every Australian set to get a King’s Birthday honour. Scott Morrison — whose legacy includes robodebt, multiple ministries and habitual lying — is the latest politician to be given the award.

Scott Morrison will be given Australia’s highest award for service as part of the King’s Birthday honours, the latest in a line of powerful Australians who have received the honour simply for doing their job.

The former prime minister is one of 830 Australians included on the as-yet-unpublished King’s Birthday honours list that will be made public on Sunday night.

Nicolette Boele on climate, business and making a difference – Australian Politics Podcast

Nicolette Boele was declared the winner in the Sydney seat of Bradfield this week, after a month of counting and recounting in her race against Liberal Gisele Kapterian. She is preparing to take her seat in parliament after a wafer-thin victory of just 26 votes. Boele speaks to chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy about why Labor needs to stop “walking both sides of the fence” on climate and energy and where she thinks the government could improve productivity.

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